Bryan Magee

Bryan Magee has had a many-sided career as a university teacher of philosophy, critic of music and theatre, broadcaster, Member of Parliament and author. His best-known TV programmes are two fifteen-part series on philosophy made for the BBC. Among his books, which together have been translated into over twenty languages, are Aspects of Wagner and The Philosophy of Schopenhauer.

What is the meaning of life, and can Philosophy help you to find it?
Philosophy can help you look for it. Whether we shall ever find it or not I do not know.

Do you agree with Socrates that the wise man is the man who admists he knows nothing?
Not admits that he knows. Knows that he knows.

Have you ever heard a tree fall in the middle of a forest?
No.

A Priori or A Posteriori?
Both.

Which do you think is more important for modern philosophy: to ask new questions, or to question the old answers?
The most fundamental questions remain the same.

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